Tim Ho Wan, the 'World's Cheapest Michelin-Starred Restaurant,' to Open in NYC

Traveling to Hong Kong just got a whole lot easier—via food, anyway. After garnering a much-covered Michelin star in 2009 for its (roughly) $5 dim sum, Hong Kong hole-in-the-wall Tim Ho Wan has skyrocketed in popularity. Anthony Bourdain included it on his "dream list" of vendors for his forthcoming Bourdain Market, and chef Mak Pui Gor has opened—or is opening—outposts of the franchise in Australia, Singapore, the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Thailand. Soon, Tim Ho Wan will expand its empire even further, when a branch opens in New York City.

As the world's "cheapest" Michelin-starred restaurant, Tim Ho Wan will open on 10th Street and Fourth Avenue in Manhattan's East Village this September. And though Mak told the Village Voice that the menu will initially focus strictly on dim sum, seemingly not much else will change: The food (plump prawn dumplings; Chinese-sausage-stuffed rice wrapped in lotus leaf) will still be affordable—and you can bet there will still be lines out the door.